quinta-feira, 20 de maio de 2021


World’s Fastest Migrating Bird Flew 500 Miles a Day for 9 Days Straight

Posted: 20 May 2021 08:00 AM PDT

Under ideal conditions, common swifts can cover more than 500 miles per day for more than a week, report scientists. Seems like an unimaginable feat for such a tiny bird, but swifts have adopted a clever strategy that makes these epic migrations possible.

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Andy Warhol Would Have Loved Bang & Olufsen's New Aluminum Soup Can Bluetooth Speaker

Posted: 20 May 2021 07:50 AM PDT

Andy Warhol famously turned a mundane can of Campbell's soup into an iconic piece of pop art, and now Bang & Olufsen is elevating the kitchen staple to a luxe piece of personal entertainment with its new aluminum-clad Bluetooth speaker that's lightweight, waterproof, and not exactly cheap.

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Kevin Feige Says Doctor Strange's Whitewashing Was the Wrong Move

Posted: 20 May 2021 07:30 AM PDT

Better almost five years late than never.

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TikTok Will Soon Let You Batch Delete Annoying Comments

Posted: 20 May 2021 07:24 AM PDT

Too bad for you, edgelords, your big boy TikTok jabs will not stand. Today, the platform announced a new feature allowing TikTokers to wipe out up to 100 comments in one stroke. TikTok says that users will now be able to select tick boxes and mass-delete, much like an email inbox. The company expects to roll this out…

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HP Just Overhauled Its Gaming Laptop Lineup

Posted: 20 May 2021 07:00 AM PDT

With new Intel and AMD laptop CPUs to use, HP is now overhauling its gaming laptop lineup with three new notebooks, an updated gaming hub, and a refreshed gaming monitor to boot.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Cyber Ninja Clown Car That's Crashing Through Arizona

Posted: 20 May 2021 06:50 AM PDT

Republicans in the Arizona Senate—obsessed with vindicating Donald Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 elections—have been working with a shady, virtually unknown firm named Cyber Ninjas to audit 2.1 million votes in Maricopa County. This farce comes despite the objections of the county's election officials, who…

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The World’s Largest Iceberg Just Broke Off Antarctica

Posted: 20 May 2021 06:37 AM PDT

There's a new big 'berg floating around Antarctica. The European Space Agency said Wednesday that a huge chunk of ice had broken off from the Ronne Ice Shelf into the Weddell Sea and formed the world's largest iceberg.

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Updates From The Suicide Squad, Green Lantern, and More

Posted: 20 May 2021 06:09 AM PDT

Jason Momoa discusses the script for Aquaman's sequel. Adam Wingard is hyping his ThunderCats film. Plus the Vampire Diaries Julie Plec has an exciting new bloodsucking project, the latest from Nancy Drew, and more. Spoilers away!

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How to Decide Which iPad Is the Best iPad for You

Posted: 20 May 2021 05:30 AM PDT

Head to the Apple website today and you'll see four different iPad models, each with a variety of specs to choose from. Which one is right for you? Why does the iPad Pro cost so much more than the iPad Air when they look so similar? Does anyone really need an iPad mini? We'll answer all these questions and more.

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ByteDance CEO to Step Down, Says He'd Rather Daydream Than Manage People

Posted: 20 May 2021 02:30 AM PDT

The CEO of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, is stepping down at the end of 2021 according to a memo posted to the ByteDance website on Thursday. And while most corporate transitions are filled with bland PR-speak, Yiming's departure memo is an interesting case study in honesty.

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Kobo's Taking On reMarkable With the Elipsa, a Digital Notebook with a Glowing Screen and eBook Store

Posted: 19 May 2021 09:01 PM PDT

Devices like the reMarkable tablet have been around for about five years now, so Kobo's Elipsa, a new E Ink-based digital notebook, is a little late to the scene. But the device is bringing a feature that all e-note tablets have been missing so far: a robust, native e-book store, making it great for both taking notes…

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This New Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness Trailer Is Terrifyingly Confusing

Posted: 19 May 2021 05:00 PM PDT

The Resident Evil universe has always been a bit... dense, let's say. There are twists upon twists and people dying and coming back and then dying again but also coming back again, good guys turned evil and vice versa, and a succession of about 18 people behind the scenes of every viral outbreak or genetic…

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Amazon Is Being Sued by Five More Women Alleging Race and Gender Discrimination

Posted: 19 May 2021 04:56 PM PDT

Five women who have worked at Amazon filed suit against the company in various U.S. district courts on Wednesday, each with distinct allegations of discrimination and retaliation they say they experienced during their time at the company.

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Nest Update Will Make Google's Gadgets Work With New Smart Home Standard

Posted: 19 May 2021 04:45 PM PDT

Google is going all in with Matter, the new smart home standard the company has backed alongside Amazon, Apple, and other gadget makers, starting with its Nest devices.

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Disney's New Spider-Man Ride Will Allow You to Purchase Upgrades

Posted: 19 May 2021 04:00 PM PDT

Certain video games allow you to spend a few dollars to get add-ons that give you an advantage—and sometimes, it can go a little overboard. Disney is bringing that idea into its theme parks with the new Spider-Man ride opening in June—Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure 

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The Dark Patterns Tipline Wants to Hear How Sites Manipulate You

Posted: 19 May 2021 03:33 PM PDT

If you're fed up with apps and websites using shitty psychological tactics—aka dark patterns—to coerce you into clicking, then good news: there's finally a way to put them on blast. Consumer Reports teamed up with a cavalcade of researchers and policy wonks to roll out the Dark Patterns Tip Line on Tuesday, a project…

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AirTags Are the Perfect Dog-Tracking Device—With the Right Accessory

Posted: 19 May 2021 03:10 PM PDT

Nina is a 9-year-old doggie from South Carolina who we adopted last March. She is also a runner. One evening, a week into her time with us, she wandered off for two days, freaking us out quite a bit.

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UK Doctor Recounts Terrifying Experience With Covid-19 That Hospitalized Her for 5 Months

Posted: 19 May 2021 02:50 PM PDT

A doctor who became one of the earliest victims of the covid-19 pandemic in the UK has now recounted her harrowing experience. In a new case report, she describes her illness and treatment, which included weeks of a last-resort intervention called ECMO that completely took over for her lungs and heart, along with her…

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'Bizarro,' a New Banking Trojan, Is Sweeping Through Europe

Posted: 19 May 2021 02:40 PM PDT

Meet "Bizarro." It's a new banking trojan currently sweeping through Europe and large parts of South America, attempting to pilfer consumer financial information and mobile crypto wallets as it goes.

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The Batgirl Movie Just Added 2 Bad Boys Directors

Posted: 19 May 2021 02:35 PM PDT

With new movies featuring Batman, Superman, and Supergirl all on the way, one more name had to be added to the list. And now she has. After years in limbo, Batgirl is back and it just picked up its directors in Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah.

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Apple Adds Gesture Control, ASL Support, and a Ton of Other Accessibility Features

Posted: 19 May 2021 02:25 PM PDT

Apple's always expressed a commitment to accessibility, but today it announced a plethora of upcoming features that could make a huge difference in how people with disabilities can interact with technology.

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Wear OS Just Got a Second Chance—It Better Not Blow It

Posted: 19 May 2021 01:51 PM PDT

After years of neglect and incremental updates, yesterday Google dropped its most meaningful wearables announcement since it rebranded from Android Wear to Wear OS in 2018. Going forward, Wear OS will take the best parts of Samsung's Tizen OS and Google-owned Fitbit to create a new unified platform for wearables. It's…

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It's Sundress Weather in the Arctic

Posted: 19 May 2021 01:48 PM PDT

It's only May, but it feels like summer has arrived in my hometown of Baltimore. Since I woke up, I've been counting the hours until I can drink iced cocktails on my deck while wearing a sundress. Can you blame me? It's 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.7 degrees Celsius) out.

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Seance's Simon Barrett on Making Horror in Horrifying Times

Posted: 19 May 2021 01:00 PM PDT

Seance—a ghostly thriller about a boarding school that starts racking up a body count soon after a mysterious new student (Suki Waterhouse) arrives—doesn't end up being the movie you think it's going to be based on its premise; it has layers while also feeling like an homage to horror films from decades ago. To learn…

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India Reportedly Demands WhatsApp Reverse Its 'Discriminatory' Privacy Policies

Posted: 19 May 2021 12:50 PM PDT

The international uproar over WhatsApp's new privacy policy got a jolt of energy this week, with a new letter reportedly from Indian authorities telling the company to walk back its changes to the platform—or else.

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